Country : Sweden
Year : 2011
Label : Universal Music
Genre : Pop; Rock; Acoustic; Jazzy; Melancholic Pop
Web Site : Jay-Jay Johanson Last Fm Page
Jay-Jay Johanson is born in Trollhatton, Sweden in 1969. His music is melancholic, sometimes, other times happy-ironic. Accepted is in itself the things of Nick Drake and Nick Cave, a mixture mixed with beautiful piano melodies and miniatures. Do not doubt, that this album has them these defining his music components. The lyrics are heavy - for the general human anguish, love, loneliness. Look at some songs titles from his new double album "Spellbound" - "Shadows"; "The Girl I Love Is Gone"; "Out Of Focus"; "She Doesn't Live Here Anymore"; "Suicide Is Painless"; "The Thrill Is Gone"; "My Mothers Grave"; "She's Mine But I'm Not Hers"; "I'm Older Now" - which directly refer to minor thoughts, and although their names they are among the best songs in the album. The album is double, as I mentioned, the second disc is called "Looking Glass (New Acoustic Versions)", and as understood by its name, contains mostly acoustic pieces.
There are stunning acoustic guitars, beautiful piano, which attracts your soul with each every chord. Feels also light jazz atmosphere, plus great music-making, that can not go unnoticed. And in "Blind" is almost surely, that you can mess up and you wonder, whether Nick Drake is resurrected and reincarnated in Jay-Jay Johanson.
